Who is Dominic?

Dominic Berry is an internationally award winning performance poet. He is 2017 Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence, winner of 2017 Saboteur ‘Best Spoken Word Artist’ award and has toured his verse across USA, Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.

His other awards include winning New York’s Nuyorican Poetry Cafe Slam, UK Superheroes of Slamand, as of 2017, seven Arts Council England Grants for the Arts awards.

He is currently touring two shows, his adult verse ‘No Tigers’, and a family retelling of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’, in collaboration with Big Imaginations, Action Transport Theatre and Arts Council England.

Television

Dominic has performed his poetry on BBC2 showcasing the best of 2017 Glastonbury Festival, BBC’s Greg and Celia’s Festivals Highlights (highlights of 2014’s Edinburgh Fringe), Channel 4’sMy Daughter The Teenage Nudist and Channel 4 News. In his children’s poet ‘Dommy B’ persona, he has performed on BBC’s Rhyme Rocket.

Theatre

For family audiences, Dominic has nationally toured his self penned solo shows Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Dinosaurs!(2016 and 2017),The Dragon Who Hates Poetry (2013, 2015 and 2017, funded by Big Imaginations and Grants for the Arts) Spark, The Goblin Wizard(2014, 2017, funded by Hamilton Project) and When Trolls Try To Eat Your Goldfish (2014 and 2015, funded by Action Transport Theatre, Big Imaginations and GftA).

Full of energy, jokes and action, these performances have enjoyed full capacity crowds from London to Glasgow and have resulted in Manchester’s Flapjack Press publishing the tie-in book to accompany each story.

For adult audiences, Dominic’s play about the modern mental health system Wizard (2012, funded by Oxford University, Arts on Prescription, Contact and GftA) toured the UK under the direction of PenUltimate’s Martin ‘Visceral’ Stannage.

Dominic and Martin also devised No Tigers, apoetry show for adults directed by Kevin Dyer – which has enjoyed national bookings, a 10 date run across South Ontario, Canada throughout 2016 and an Australia / New Zealand 2017 tour.

Where Dominic Has Trained

As a teenager with the National Youth Theatre of Wales

In his early twenties with Manchester Contact’s Young Actor’s Company, 2003 – 04

An ‘At Home’ artist’s residency with Contact, 2007, directed by Shabina Aslam and John McGrath.